CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF skyphos. From Italy. Achilles Painter. Third quarter fifth.
"Parthenonzeit" (CVA). 450-445 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Unexplained subjects: Fr. 1: [heads of] Athena and Talthybios, facing (the
last figures on the right side, near the handle root). Fr. 2: head and chest of
a man to left, wearing pilos and himation: Telamon, or Ajax, or Teucer, and
Aegina. Frs. 3-10: bits of drapery, and on fr. 4 also floral and tongue pattern.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. 1: above the man: Θαλθυ[βι]ος{1}. Fr. 2: above the man: [--]να :*
Τελα[--]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Kenner in CVA, 38. AA had red Θαλθυιβος, which is repeated by
Kretschmer. {2} Kenner suggests either [Αθε]να or [Αιγι]να for the first name;
Beazley cites only the latter, which is more likely as the contracted form of
Athena is fairly rare. For the second name, Kenner restores Τελα[μον] or
Τελα[μονιος], i.e., Telamon or Ajax. Oakley reads Τελα[μον] or Τελα[μονιος]
referring to Teucer rather than to Ajax. {3} I mention only the inscribed frs.
CAVI Comments: 14 frs. Oakley lists 10 frs., all carefully described and figured. He notes
on p. 12 that this is the only use of punctuation by the Achilles Painter.
CAVI Number: 7974
AVI Bibliography: Patsch (1891), 179/4 (not ill.). — Kretschmer (1894), 150. — H. Kenner, CVA
Vienna, Universität & Matsch, Germany 5 (1942), III I, pl. 25,1-3. — ARV[2]
(1963), 995/117. — LIMC vii (1994), pl. 584, Talthybios 1. — Oakley (1997), 12,
*54, 136/166, fig. 38D (profile), pl. 91A.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
